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The Star as Icon
Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly—the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voyeuristic...
The Sky Is Falling
How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
**A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018
A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us.”
-The Spectator (London)
A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played...
Beyond Bombshells
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power,...
by Brian Folker, Maia A. Gemmill, Patricia M. Goff
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Why not take seriously the claim that Harry Potter's world intertwines with our own? In this timely yet otherworldly volume, more than a dozen scholars of international relations join hands to demonstrate how this well-loved artifact of popular culture reflects and shapes our own lifeworld. A wide...
by Cameron C. Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations,...
by Kathryn Edney
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. With their resurgent popularity—on both the large and small screens—musicals...
The Kid of Coney Island
Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2001
A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells...
Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman
Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos explores the many-layered relationships female fans build with feminist musicians in general and with Tori Amos, in particular. Using original interview research with more than forty fans of Tori Amos, multiple observer-participant...
Kvetching and Shpritzing
Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor—from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen—have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile world and a means of cultural affirmation....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
The terms "blue collar" and "working class" remain incredibly vague in the United States, especially in pop culture, where they are used to express and connote different things at different times. Interestingly, most Americans are, in reality, members of the working class, even if they do not necessarily...
The Mystery of Samba
Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture...
After the Ball
Pop Music from Rag to Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
First published in 1972, Ian Whitcomb's After the Ball is an exuberant account of the origins and explosion of popular music, informed by the author's store of experience in the field as a pop sensation of The Sixties.'Brash, learned, funny and perspicacious.... The author of this free-wheeling,...
Fleetwood Mac
The Complete Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This is the first-ever complete, illustrated history of Fleetwood Mac, the legendary band that has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. From this British-American band's blues origins in the 1960s to its pop superstardom in the 1970s and 1980s to its 2015 reunion, Fleetwood Mac has endeared...
Popular Culture
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.